Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

When you're told as a caddie we need to take a break, you're fired.

I am out of humanity's reach.